This paper develops a policy simulation model based on the system dynamics approach to examine the role of wood trade liberalization in helping long-term forestry development in China.

This paper addresses the issue of sample selection bias in theoretical validity tests of willingness to pay (WTP) estimates of the use-value of an environmental good. Theoretical validity assesses the extent to which findings of a Contingent Valuation (CV) survey are consistent with theoretical...

Since the eighteenth century there has been a long-run trend towards growing functional and geographical specialisation of commercial and industrial buildings within particular urban centres. This trend reached a peak in around 1960 and the last four decades have witnessed a move away from...

This paper explores the nature of the relationship between international tourism and the environment in a naturally bounded area, a small tropical island. Since the 1980s international tourism in Gili Trawangan has increasingly replaced agriculture and fishing as the dominant economic activity....